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Evidence-Based Health Policy

December 21, 2017

The New England Journal of Medicine | By Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra. "Having a clear framework for characterizing what is, and isn’t, evidence-based health policy (EBHP) is a prerequisite for a rational approach to making policy choices," Baicker and Chandra argue, "and it may even help focus the debate on the most promising approaches."

Katherine Baicker is Dean of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Amitabh Chandra is Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.



Examining the lives of black youth

December 7, 2014

Boston Globe Magazine | Interview with Orlando Patterson



Experts Have Been Studying Income Inequality for Decades. Has Anything Changed?

May 25, 2016

Smithsonian.com | Q & A with Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and author of Evicted, who reflects on the importance of the ethnographic tradition and other influences in his work.



Faculty Voices: Crystal Yang on fear and the safety net

January 31, 2020

Harvard Law Today | Professor Crystal Yang JD/PhD 2013 discusses her paper (joint with Marcella Alsan), “Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities,” which examines the link between tougher immigration enforcement in the United States and the lack of participation in government safety-net programs by Hispanic citizens.

Crystal Yang is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Marcella Alsan is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

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Family Engagement in Education: The Boston Basics - Supporting Child Development

April 19, 2017

HarvardX | Listen as Professor Ron Ferguson, from the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the Boston Basics — five actions a parent or any caregiver can take to help young children thrive. [video: 2 minutes]

"The nugget for me [that most influenced our emphasis in Boston Basics] was 4 or 5 years ago looking at the early childhood longitudinal survey and seeing that racial and socioeconomic differences are not very apparent around the first birthday, but they are stark by the second birthday."



Federal Education Policy: What to Expect

January 13, 2017

Usable Knowledge (HGSE) | A primer on presidential transitions, Betsy DeVos, and how federal policy trickles down. Interview with Martin West (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.



Federal Meddling in School Discipline

August 24, 2015

National Review | By Paul E. Peterson



Federal policies for graying America

September 17, 2015

Brookings Institution | By Douglas W. Elmendorf, who begins his term as dean of the Harvard Kennedy School in January 2016.



Feel Better About American Divisiveness By Comparing Ourselves To Other Countries

January 26, 2017

WGBH Radio | Psychologist Michael Norton of Harvard Business School joined Boston Public Radio to discuss his new study, which highlights our country’s ability to tolerate and accept other belief systems better than many others.



Five Myths about the Koch Brothers—And Why it Matters to Set Them Straight

March 10, 2016

Moyers & Company | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) and Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology).

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